The Sun. — London, England, 1826-09-09 00:00:00

absurd would it be thought if a builder were reprehended, because for erecting a house he should charge ten thousand pounds, without paying any attention to the explanation of the total charge which the various items of his bill or his contract would supply. And how ridiculous would it he in any one to allege that one thousand pounds for paper hanging was enormous or unfair, without attending to the nature, quality, and quantity of the paper consumed. Now the attempt to present what is termed an Abstract of my Bill, which is wholly free from even the explanation which the Bill itself supplies, is ungenerous and ungentle manly. . Nor will the attempt deceive, those who reason and reflect, but the majority of men know not how to rea son, and reflection is to them troublesome. As to the other charges respecting the Welsh Iron Com pany, as far as I am concerne d : I have already, in all the London papa's, refuted them, either as inventions or as gross exaggerations. Third, as to the late Norfolk, ltc. Railway Company. The observations respecting my connection with this Com pany are even more absurd than all the rest. In the case of the Welsh Iron Company my bill is found fault with as large, but in the late Norfolk, ikc. - Company, fault is found that there is no bill, and that the Directors and Share holders are largely in debt to me. Here a clerk out of place, violating the confidence reposed in him by his former employers, is the accuser ; and those who attended the meetings were nearly all not only not holders of Scrip then, but never had been; and, like poor Mr. Clark, at , tended the meetings for want of better occupation. By this concern I am canfessedly the loser—but because the times are bad—no business is stirring—and money among the Stock Jobbers is scarce—such a person as George Sbeldrick is allowed anonymously to call a meeting of an Assdciation long since without ,existence. To these, and other less public modes of attack, I have now, however, submitted too long. I have said public opinion will change, and my refutations will in their turn be heard. To myself, however, and others, I owe more than this, and I therefore distinctly state, that not merely by civil actions, but by indictments and criminal informa tions, I shall now proceed calmly but firmly to punish the vile slanderers, and shall be awed by no paper, however great its circulation, or well or ill-deserved its influence with the unthinking portion of the public. For different libels and different slanders, as well oral as written, and as well past as future, I shall adopt different proceedings; an d whilst I will on the one hand supply to others all the opportunities to which they may be entitled, to prove their allegations ; yet, on the other hand, I will not sue any pro. prietor of a newspaper for civil damages, who has no property to lose, as he has no reputation to maintain, and -who would consider imprisonment as no punishment, since existence is to him a sufficient blessing. I remain, Sir, your obedient Servant, • New Broad-street, Sept. G. JOHN WILKS, Jun. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,--I have frequently heard it observed by Lawyers, and indeed I think I have seen it laid down in books of Law, that it is the peculiar and favourite province of the Court of Chancery to watch over and protect charitable institutions of all descriptions, and especially to regulate the disposal of sums which the piety of deceased persons has left for the aid or pro motion of charitable objects. Being an accidental attendant last Sunday, during the performance of Divine service, in a Church situ ated at no great distance from your Office, my atten tion was forcibly arrested, and indeed, was half-divert ed from a very excellent sermon, by an item which caught my . eye in a List of Benefactions, suspended in a conspicuous part of the building. The item to which I refer, seems to ine to allbrd so beantibil au illustratian of the zeal and effect with which the Court of Chancery discharges the duty above Specified, that I cannot help subpu ung a transcript of it for the en joythent and admiration of your Waders " Mr. John Smeeton bequeathed to these charity schools 20/., which am a suit in the Court of Chancery reduced to 61." If charities in general, however, are as great fa vourites with the tribunal in question as the schools here mentioned, the self-willed public of these days, Mr. Editor, may be apt to think that such favouritism cannot be too soon abolished. Your constant reader, A CHARITY-SCHOLAR. London, Sept. '7, 1826. DEPLORABLE OCCURRENCE. (From the Buckingham Chronicle). A deplorable occurrence took place on Monday last, at ItLittle Kimble, in the household of Mr. John Pope For dom, a respectable farmer at that place. Celia White, a native of Lower Winchendon, a remarkable steady young woman, who was within a day of completing the 24th year of her age, having lived servant in the family for nearly four years, and previously three years in the service of a near re lation, was much regarded by the family and her neigh bours for her superior behaviour. In the same family was a young man, who entered into service about the same time as herself, and with whom a mutual attachment hay inf been formed, she was expected to be united at the en suing Michaelmas. On IVltoday the family having gone to dine at a rela tion's i n the adjoining village, Celia was left, about noon, at home. Whi'.le Mr. Fordom was sitting down to dinner, tidings were brotesrlit that Celia was seized in a fit in a neighbouring field. He immediately hastened home, and on his arrival found he lying on the kitchen floor, to w hi c h o w kid b een carried by tWo labouring men, who bad w itnessed her agony in the field. The poor young woman having had an hysterical affection some time in the harvest, he supposed it was a return of the same complaint, but an awful foreboding on the part of the young woman indicated a more serious cause. On being assisted from the field, she intimated that solicitude was needless, as she should die, and as soon us her lover arrived, she looted at and aid, I was going after you, Joe ? "—The part of t',`le field in which she fell was about midway between h er n ee lter's and the young TWIN house. • Ass' howl as Mr. Fordom saw her, he proposed to her that she sho:qld he removed to bed, the last words she uttered were id "slyer to him "pray, let me lie on the floor." bier age. - .9> was extreme; the seat of her com plaint was, as was evideat,from her violent reachings, in the stomach ; medical etaistatice was immediately sent for before any relief could arrive, to Princes Itisbortnigh, .but, the mifortunate ereature died. Not above 20 minutes passed from the time she was seen in the field, until she expired. When investigation began to be made, it was evident she bad taken poison. On Tuesday, the Coroner of the district, Mr, Ch ar 4„, ' held an inquest on view of the body, ' end no .044.rieJe having been adduced to show that she had taken th e nniluot , n or with what view it h ad been taken, the jury, are r conned, returned a verdict, " Found poisoned." • Not the shadow of a suspicion, however, rests upon any individual alive. The young man alluded to has, w e are asoured, borne a character as exemplary for morals as that of the deceased. Some circumstances which might have otherwise escaped notice, have since this deplorable occur rence, been brought to mind, which seem to prove of late irregelerity in the mind of the deceased. She was owa sionally moping and irritable; an d oilone occasion was three hours absent frinn home, when sent on au errand which might have been eXeented in twenty minutes. At. that very time she was seen by two persons, of Kimble, on the road to Aylesbury, at two different parts of the way. ,On tins nerattion, it is suspected, she provided her self with the fatal potion. This Melancholy catastrophe has produced a deep im pretaion throughout Kitutile, FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Etoile, dated Wednesday.) BUCHAREST, Auo. - Our accounts from Constanti nople' come down to the 3d. That capital continued to be in the greatest alarm. The general terror alone seems to prevent irre-action on the part of the Mussel men, irritated at the new reforms. The Sultan and the Seraskier Grand Vizier, whom the Mussulmen ttpbritid with his mean origin, are every day the subject of the most insulting placards. Nevertheless the Sultan goes re gularly to the mosque. It is 'affirmed that there were seventy-five Topchis among the individuals lately executed, and who are said to have formed a new conspiracy against the Sultan. Of the eklevalit Janissary Ages, who.have been made Cham berlains to draw them to the capital, seven have already been beheaded, a few days after their arrival. The popu lace, whom the low price of provisions had in a manner gained over for a time to the cause of reform, begin to murmur, and the prospect of the future seems more gloomy than ever. Lord Cochrane appears to have really arrived at Napoli di Romania on the 26th of July, and to be there waiting for the remainder of his vessels. PARIS, SEPT. 6.—The Count of Capo d'lstria, Russian Secretary of State, the Count Mocinigo, Ambassador from the same Court, and the Baron de Krudener, his Charge d'Affaires in Switzerland, are at present at Lausanne. The Baron de Krudener leaves Switzerland for Paris, whence he will set out for St. Petersburgh, and thence to Washington, where he is to act as Minister to the United States. M. d'Olfers, Charge d'Affaires from the Court of Berlin to the Court of Brazil, has left the same place for Rio Janeiro. . . The Count of - E»gestrom ' formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs for Sweden, and who has been residing in the neighbourhooti of Posen since 1824, died on the 19th of August, from a stroke of apoplexy. (From the Etoile dated Thursday.) PARIS, SEPT. 7.—The llioniteur contains a Royal Or dinance, by which the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs is entrusted with the Portefeuille of the MiUister of War, during the absence of the latter Minister on his Ma jesty's service. A Journal announces to-day that a conspiracy has broken out at Lisbon, and that the alarm has spread to Paris. The latest news from Portugal received here is of the 25th of August, and it is impossible that there can be any more recent. The Government, made uneasy by the dis position of the horse-guard of the police, had substituted for it a guard on foot, and had embarked ! for the Azores a part of the individuals composing the formm It is false that persons of distinction are , implicated, and that the Regent had asked the English Admiral to place the squa dron in the Tagus at her disposal. However, we must say that discontent NM beginning to , manifest itself even in the capital, and people were watching each other with apprehension. What then is there alarming to us in all this? Several journals borrow, to-day, from an American jour nal, an article which announces that St. Domingo is blockaded by a French fleet. This news is false and ab sutd. All the French men-of-war that were in those seas are now at Brest, to which port they have returned with Admiral Duperre. We cannot conceive how journals which call themselves friends of commerce hasten, on the slightest foundation, to publish news the most likely to injure it. If those journals are so offended at our contradictions, and at the form in which we give them, we must observe to them that there are but very few manners of saying that a thing is true, or not true; whereas there are a thousand manners of lying. Thejournals now confess that there has been no. Co ngress at Johannisberg, and announce the departure of M. de Tatisebeff, who passed through Nuremburg on the 27th of August. However, by way of c o nsOlung,ltself, one of these journals sees, in the journey of the King of Prussia to Konigsberg, and the possible intention of that Sovereign to go to Warsaw to the Coronation of his son in-law, conferences which are to modify the policy of Europe. This is at least the 30th Congress vi:hich those journals have invented since the Congress of Vienna. Mr. Canning's journey will furnish them with another opportunity to exercise their imaginations on the subject. The King of Prussia left Berlin on the 25th for Ko nigsberg; he will stay four or five days in that city before the beginning of the reviews. Ilia Majesty will return on the 1441 t SepteMber to Berlin, to be present at the grand review of cavalry, for which the Landwehr of Lusatia has received orders to march. All the Ministers of State have returned from the Baths at the same time. Letters from Syra, dated Aug. 7, have been received at. Trieste ; they announce that the Capitan Pacha has failed a third time in his enterprise against Samos. The Turks having lost three ships of different sizes, are said to have retreated to Scio. It is stated in news from Portugal that a Portuguese Nobleman, sent by the Regency, has arrived at Madrid, commissioned to put the oath of fidelity to the Constitu tion to the Princess of Beira. If the Princess should re fuse this oath, all her property in Portugal will be seized and confiscated, This is the liberty of Revolutionists, and these are the means they would employ to force a majority in favour of their principles, SEPT. 7.—The Queen Dowager of Wirtemberg has ar rived from Frankfort, under the title of Countess of Gro ningen. She stopped at the English hotel. His Highness Prince Hatzfield, Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Austria, and Count de Caux, Minister Plenipotentiary from France at the Court of Hanover, have also arrived in this city with their families. (From, the Gazelle Univereelk.) PARIS, SHPT. s.—We have a letter from Lisbon, (Stile 24th of August, which says : The Count de Villa Real will be at Madrid on the lith of September. • The emigrations from Portugal to Spain coptinue, in spite of al/ the precautions that have been taken. It is feared that the Government will suffer itself to yield too much to the revolutionary impulse. PARIS, SEPT. s—The Pdote toMounces the definitive appointment of the Duke of San Carlos to the post of Minister for Foreign Affairs at Madrid. (From the Pilate.) PARIS, SEPT.4.—A German Journal, which is printed at Paris, contains to-day a private letter from Frankfort of the Ist, which gives some important intelligence. Nume rouS contradictory reports are, it is said, mreulating with respect to the negociations at Johannisberg, in consequence of the profoUnd secresy observed in respect of the deli- berations there, and because the assembling at that place of so many diplomatists /and eminent persons of Germany leads to the inference, that the matters discussed there are of the greatest interest.. Notwithstanding all this, says the writer, the sole and only object of the discussion at o han eisberg, se e ;:is to be the free navigation of the Rhine. The energetic tiote published by Austria, soni c months ago, relative to the refursal on the part of Holland, led to Idle expectation' that that Power would not oppose any longer the execution of the treaties, The Prince de et tenni+ was not, however, confident of this at ti#P titß e that the Co llUtl i sS i Ott f rom Ma yence came to pay their h o m a g e to him at Johamrisherg, That Prince, previous t o takin g this affair into consideration, was of opinion, that the solu tion of the question depended solely upon the particular negociations of Prussia and Hollatttl, A t • which allows no stranger to pass a ni tion the German fh which' which tine awakened Ise attetv. pa lie, is, the rigour of t po ]ages adjoining Mlwith a )erg, unless lie be provided with a Rassport, or can give security f The senior Magistrate of good b -hitviour. or his t. ht in any of the vii- Johannisberg, to giv e in his report to the Prince of the goes every morning strangers newly arrived, and of those Who have merely passed through. It is not Known whether these measures are intended to keep secret the subject of the negociatiens- The Echo die attributes tho fall of the Duke del Infantado to Sir Wm. A'Court and Mr. Lamb. We are not of the same opinion, we think that the fall of that Minister must be attributed to the necessity which he felt of refusing to yield to the demands of the fanatical party. (From the Quoridientie.) We learn from Marseilles, that commerce, which has' been languishing there for a long time, is now utterly anni hilated. Like the other sea ports of the kingdom, Mar seilles had no commerce with the North of Europe or Ame rica, but it still retained its trade with the Levant and Egypt. Piracy has taken from it those only remaining . sources. The Greek corsairs are to the French commerce in the Mediterranean, what the Colombian privateers are to the trade of Spain. The price of merchandise in the market of Marseilles is daily falling, and holders of goods seek to get rid of them at any price. If it be asked, adds our Correspondent, how it happens that, after 12 years of peace, the commerce of .France is in so miserable a condi tion i it is easy. to answer, that this misfortune is due to the little care that has been taken to open new channels, or to enlarge the old. The defective system of our Custom house Laws has likewise increased our commercial dis tress. It appears, in truth, as if a hostile hand directed all the measures connected with our national industry. When we speak of our situation, some people cite England, and its recent bankrupteie. England has suffered losses, be cause she has undertaken too much, but the commerce of France languishes, because she has undertaken nothing. (From the Constitutionnel.) SMYRNA, JULY 24.—The heroines of Maine, on the at tack of the troops of Ibn►him, displayed great courage. Five hundred of them well armed 'gave repeated proofs of their courage to those troops, cowards it is true, but ably officered. On the whole, the affairs of Greece are looking up, and if our marine was aided by Lord Cochrane, who has not yet made his appearance, we are certainly on the eve of striking a great blow. The delay of this celebrated Admiral astonishes us much, perhaps it is to be attributed to the delay of the frigates expected from America, which were to set sail in the beginning of May. According to the assurance given us here by the United States Admiral, Mr. Condostando must, we feel confident, have succeeded at Washington in his demands. In a single day the sum required by hini was raised by subscription. More than a hundred Hydriot and Spezziot vessels are in the port at Hydra; we hope that they will perform their duty even before the arrival of Lord Cochrane. At the instant that I am writing, an Ipsariot child, which we have just redeemed, stands at my side. God take pity on so many innocent creatures! I announce, with pleasure, the renewal, by the Imperial Russian family, of their con tribution towards the redemption of the unhappy slaves. PRICKS OF STOCKS THI; Bank Stock shut 3 per Cent. Red. shut 3 per Cent. Cons 73% 9 1 ,6 9 336 per Cent. shut Ditto Red. shut 4 per Cent. New . 91 % 4 1% Ditto, Scrip —... Bank Long Ann. India,Stock 234 Dittoßonds 27 prn. PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres,Bonds Chilton Bonds, 6 per ct. Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent. Greek Bonds Ditto,:lB2s Guatimala Mexican Bonds 43 Do. 1825 52 3',)4 VAN DIEMAN'S LAND. EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED MACQUARIE..STRIET, HOBART.. • TOWN, APRIL 2* ...(111r THE LANG.) " After a voyage of five months we came to anchor in the Derwent, having, out of that time; spent but twelve hours at Madeira, and a week at Rio de Janeiro. We had a great proportion of fine weather. I am much better pleased with Hobart-town than I expected to be; it con tains many excellent houses, almost all the necessaries, and many of the luxuries of life, and the climate appears a very fine one. It is not more than 20 years since the first settlers, some poor people from Norfolk Island, arrived here : it is the genius of England that presides here, and makes the country what it is ! Amongst other proofs of its parentage we have a free press. The Hobart-town Gazette is the Government paper, and the Colonial Times is the Opposition paper, and free enough they make with each other : as is ever the case, what talent there is , is on the side of the latter. The people here are divided into plebeians and patricians, or rather the prisoners and free people ; all who are not of the former degraded class hav ing a certain nonchalance about them that appears to acknowledge no superior. I should imagine it is nmeh the same tone of feeling that exists between the black and whites. I should beg the negro's pardon for such a com parison—he is a noble and exalted being compared with the civilized criminal: would you see degradation personi fied, it is in the fettered convict. " It is for from a luxuriant country, but capable, I be lieve, of great things if properly cultivated. In a few years it will become another England. I can wish it nothing better than it should be so. The first view of the coast is barren; the mountains thinly covered with a reluctant herbage, and as thinly clothed with stunted trees, chiefly of the Hum pine. Some of the mountains are bare rocks to the very summit, particularly the Newstone, which never saw any thing but an eagle, or an albatrdss, alive upon its summit, since it came forth frog) chaos. At a particular point of view it looks like a lion coucliant. I have as yet seen no large trees, nor can I hear of any. I thought of the oak, the elm, te ash, and the chestnut, those magnificent trees of my own dear matchless country!" EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED HOBART-TOWN, srau..2o. (111 r THE MEDWAY. " Although the charm of novelty is wearing off, I think there is good reason to be satisfied with the country in ge m:III, and that an industrious man, with some property, is pretty sure of getting on in the world. I cannot speak &clayey with regard to agricultural pursuits, but of the produce of the land I must acknowledge the accounts are not much exaggerated. Our wheat, vegetables, and butchers' meat, are of the first descriptio» • many of our fruits are very fine, and all would be so did description; know how to manage them. As one proof of the goodness of . these things, and the fineness of the climate, we are getting daily fatter and fatter. I can scarcely put on any 61 the clothes I brought out with me. I have not been able to ascertain the population of this town; I should guess from 4,000 to 5,000 would be the extent. The people here are, as usual, divided into two violent parties, and the Radicals make the greatest noise. " The Bush-rasgers are now all taken, and will shortly be tried and executed; they have been the scourge of the settlers for the last two years : two or three of them would go and make risoners of ten or a dozen gentlemen, and their servants and labourers; so much were they dreaded, and so unprovided were the settlers with the means of defence. SHOCKING Ace tDENT.—Last night an accident occurred in the family of a Mr. Upjohn, in Oxford street. Some few friends had been invited to spend the evening with him, and the children were sent into the kitchen, when on a sudden the company were alarmed by the screams of one of them, and on run ning down stairs they discovered a little girl about five years old enveloped in fire; after some t►me the flames were extinguished, but it is feared the child will not recover. EXTRAORDIN AR Y tnENT.—An inquest was held on Tuesd a y, at Ab berley, Worcestershire, on the body of Willi a m M orr i s, age d e i g h t , who, on Saturday afternoon, was gathering nuts with a cherry picking hook, and was holding down the branch of a nut tree, with his foot upon the lower hook, when the bough sprung up, the hook caught his right eye, and penetrated nearly to the b ra in ; he died in great ag on y the following afternoon. Verdict—Accidental Death. —Sfirewbury Chronicle. SnocKiwo A vrAtilt /q r . Hunter, one of the guards of the until-coach from Dumfries to Port patriek, has just i n f ormed us t h a t on pass i ng through oletiluee on his way t o D u mfries last ni g ht, h e was told that the hotly of A bull o ck had been cast ashore some miles to the south of that place, and that the people who found it thought, from its fresh appear ance, it might be safely cut up. It was so, and di vided among a number o f families, but soon after h a d then died, an d f ourteen ot h ers were l y i ng dan gerously eating it they all b ecame excess i ve ly s i c k ; one man gerously ill, and very faint hopes entertained of their recover.—DuVies journal, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEP7. 9, 1826. We have received the Paris Papers of Tuesday and WedneSday, and the Etoile of Thursday morning, from which we have made, long extracts, which will be found another column. The Etoile of Wednesday contains accounts from Constantinople to the 3d of August. It is stated in these accounts that the general terror which prevailed seemed alone to prevent a re-action on the part of the Mussehnen. The Sultan and Seraskier are every day , the subject of the most hisulting Placards, but the Sultan, nevertheless, goes regularly to the Mosque. Fresh executions had taken place, and the future pros pect seems more gloomy than ever. It is announced positively in these Papers that Lord COCHRANE had arrived at Napoli di Romania on the 26th of July, and was waiting there for the remainder of his vessels. If the commencement of his Lord ship's services is to U 4 delayed till his vessels arrive, months and months may yet elapse before the cause of Greece can benefit by his enterprize and skill. The Constitutionnel gives, in a letter from the Greek Committee at Marseilles to that at Paris, some account from Smyrna of the success of the Mainotes over IBRAHIM, and asserts that the affairs of Greece in general had taken a favourable turn. The Etoile of Thursday alludes to the conspiracy at Lisbon, but denies that persons of distinction are implicated in it. It insinuates, however, that discon tent was beginning to manifest itself even in the capital, and that people were watching each other with apprehension. These accounts come down only to the 25th of August, and we know that tranquillity was perfectly restored at a time subsequent to this period. FRENCH FUNDS....-PARIS, SEPT. s.—Five per Cents. 1001 75c. 70c. ibc. 80c. 75c. ; Three per Cents. 661. sc. 66f. 66t. sc. 10e. ; Bank Actions, 20101. 2012 f. 50c. ; Naples Renty, 721. '7sc. 70c. ; Ferdinand's Bonds, 4 5if.—Exchangs on London —One Month, 261. 55c. ; three months, 25f. 40c. 6.—Five per Cents. opened at 100 f. 70c. ; closed al 100 f. 56c. ; Three per Cents. 66f. bc, ; Bank Actions, 2012 f 60c. ; Naples Rentes, 72f. 70c.; ditto (Money), 71f. 'Me. Ferdinand's Bonds, 46f. ; Constitutional ditto, no price.— Exchange on London—One month 2bE 50c. ; 25f. 35c. thre. mouths We have received the Allgemeine Zeitung cif the Ist of September, from which we learn no news. The following Article from Rome, describes the activity of His HOLINESS in the fashionable employment of REFORM ROME, Auu. 17. The Pope proceeds i n his political reforms with indefatigable activity, though almost incom mEvoreen good-willm m any parable obstacles are every where thrown in his way. has given it into effea, are said often to advise to let things alone; but the Pope does not well4spo en se e d r ; IT ca to rr w y hom Heaven seem disposed to listen to them. Posterity will bless him for this, even if his c onteqiporaries -should be so short sighted as to desire the return of the old abuses. I have frequently mentioned those that had crept into the admi nistration of the Customs. The Pope, of his own accord, without consulting the Board of Finance, which was just engaged on a very different plan, has dismissed all the officers and subalterns, and half the soldiers of the Customs : the other half is to be new-organized. The civic guar d, or rather its general staff, which alone eXisted, and heti a bureau, which occasioned considerable ex p ense without doing any good, is dissolved, and the offic I .ed oil ha lf- pa y. The Administration of Ecclesiastical .ers p l aced ta ac te, in the provinces has had t h e same fate , being wholly a bolished, and united with the Ministry o"1" y Finance. Th e most importpit reform, however, as it seems, will be expe rienced by the Chamber, especially . t h at of it calle d part the Cornputisteria. A few .4 -ays ago the. Chief Revisore and eight of his subalterns were di sm issed. The new Revisore has received orders to state accurately the number of clerks he wants, and to choose among the most able and honest Which-04 1 S 01 the otlive i the 9thaii will be dis charged. The chase and the Asheries, as important branches of the subsistence of the people, have likewise at tracted the Pope's attention. It is said that all restrictions on both will be shortly abolished, only of course con tinuing the prohibition of them in certain seasons of the year. We received thistmorning the Allgemeine Zeitung to the 4th inst., but its-contents are uninteresting. The fair at Frankfort seemed to promise well, par ticularly in cotton, if we may judge from the immense quantities which Austria was sending in. Prince METTERNICH was expected at Frankfort by the 6th or Bth of September, but all the reports respecting his mission are said to have been without any foundation. His object was chiefly of a private nature, connected with buildings erecting on his estates at .Tohannis berg : FRANKFORT, AUG. 28. Our hotels are at present full, as well of persons return- . .ng from the baths, as of strangers who have come to, attend the fair. Among the latter are n u merous pur chasers, especially from the countries on the Rhine, who are usually the first that arrive at the fair. Large Owl tities of, wool, particularly from Austria, arrive daily. Persons who are competent judges in these matters, are inclined to expect a more favourable conjunction for this . article, than, considering the state of the manufacturing districts in England, has hitherto been expected. His Highness Prince Metternich, who is expected here about the 6th or Bth Sept., will stop a few days in this citY• and then proceed by way of Darmstadt and Carlsruhe, to the Lake of Constance, after which, be will return to Vienna, by way of 'Salzburgh. All the reports previously spread by uninformed journals, respecting certain political objects con nected with his Highness's journey, and his visit to Johan nisberg, have been now proved by the event, to have been totally unfounded. The Prince, as we hear, has had extensive buildings erected both on his estates in Bohemia, and on his domain at Joflannisberg, partly ornamental, and partly fo r use; and the desire of seeing the state of these improv ement ' , aff and of enjoying the recreation which the country ords, and the social intercourse connected with it, is probably the only motive of a journey which has given rise to so much speculation. _ ITALY. It was on the 7th of August that Professor Pons disco vered a very small comet near the star 11 in Eridones• — : d The Astronomers of the Studii Pii' immediately nbl''''''_ it As jut w iguo i n t s h ta.s th fo e mi ir iomi‘n e i. lc dn e eg: llent micrometer, and determined it P ° time sec . Rightm deg. sec. min. deg• rec. 25. 34. 30. 8. 15. 32. 40. 47. 20. 20. 25. 14 . 22 ' 9. 15. 34. 40. 48. 39. 4'7. 24. 51 . 37 ' The comet has a very faint light—no 10. , 15. 37. 11. 49. 49. 15. seems to be approaching to the sun. in ati o n . meteors, and Frankfort Papers to the 2d of September also ar rived this morning. The first Diet of the Principality ' of Schwartzburg Rudolstadt has terminated its sitti ng of six years, after greatly reducing the public debt. SAXONY, AVG. 6. The first Diet of the Principality of Schwartzburg ittl. dolstadt, which was convoked in 1821, is now terminated, after sitting the six years fixed by the law. The Govern ment has announced this, and at the same time signifie s that the Prince is satisfied with the proceedings of the late Diet, and that the Deputies have fulfilled all the expects', tions that could reasonably be entertained. In the coars e of the six years 100,644 dollars of the public debt have been paid, and several improvements in the Legislation have been made. Due notice will be given of the couvn' cation of a new Diet. Prince Henry LXXII., of Reuss Eberdorff, considering the present unfavourable state of manufactures and sgrr culture, has been induced to excuse his subjects, for thin year, from the payment of three instalments of the 1U tary tax. By the Swabian Mercury, also received this mot! ing, it appears that the Landholders of Letitenburg and Konitz have no mind to pay taxes for the war • nage portion of a Princess, on the ground that it is $ family concern, and thinking probably that they lov e enough to do to portion off their own daughters GOTHA, AUG. 16 % the course of this year orders were issued in the prin. cipality of Schwartzburg Rudolstadt, on the oceaiiatt O f • th e marriage of the Princess Caroline, daughter of the l a is Prince Charles Gunther, to levy a Princess tax, aa 11 ' _ called, which is to affect only the possessors of el t . utr i : to charged with the old land -tax, dispensing all oth ers contributing. The landholders in the districts of Leutenherg „riii4 ; Konitz have refused to pay the tax, because the of a Princess is a family concern, and not an a ffair el S i t , a tii , because the obligation of the subject, charge d w i it hitlY, land -tax, to pay this impost, is not the'proved a"" because the tax has not been submitted to Diet il)1 tts approbation. o f :1 1 ° - They therefore required to be heard in a C° llrt , yf ir the tice : this was refused, and measures taken t 0 I . „„ e ldisr‘ i p y ro o t n es t t h aga em. i ) nst U it, po d t e i c t la h ri is ng th t e h y tax by military execution (that is, by quartering " tee d a and reserved their rights.—They have applied , t p d that had it was an affair which was n a o ti : tihn d e yt t r a x yi e f t l i e n : bo f e o be r s c ts e i : i preme Court of Appeal at Zerbot, but were allawc — f the Court, but of the other tribunal which had alra mi Y applied to. . We received this morning th e Singapore Chronic : to the 3d of March ; b u t it s con t en ts, respecting I c'o e war in India, have been already a nticipated • f it tains an interesti ng account ' o f t h e North Coast 1 e Sumatra, whi c h we s h a ll g i ve on MondaY , for t h e Sumatra, amusement, and p er h a p s b en e fi t of our cotronerc! . readers. W e su bj o i n a f ew e xtracts on other sut' jects :- oqfui T itnted he s .s el ai to n o ar ne a t n • g A: bo a - te ut / t ta h s e mi ar d rig e t o at an ß u h ar io y. fro,m r h • e l'a s v ,,, a ' ne l : e l s y s t i : 4 t fie ... for tn e e tl p te a iiv r A e c ti e n li l it tt i ot el f s trh s Co le il tai e r l r fas . ny had teuxestiespect tpievrefei a; )trl t oy i v vi tirn t a y enes i g v .u h i i l : T h ah we nedine fo oin r a me t r eia l i y itec t e t i o ,ie t ii i ig eet sohbo l l , n st uer i d l h l egood co ree nt t i ,r i fet, tu st e av t lruo i l u is r . :l l, g co l o ,4 : come operations with the interior had been resumed, sn d e b r . eith BoaNzo.—We have received advie from Pontiansh to the i 0 g .—The Venus brings of February. The Insurgent Chinese"ofAlainpaws, ilft,eruiffre stinted offensive operations, and we believe that without rein.— - b n e t t e n ut: lr t it it difficult to see fromsuch ' foreemento what quarter rem be drawn at present. dow n CIIINA been brought down to Sainaraug to the beginning of February. g The advice regarding th e 0 . 1 ::::1 ~i mar ket . are nut favourable. Prices continued much (11). do d wing the mouth oflanuary, while the consumption, dur in g u i, of istolliotnhaeiiln:ta:itetit hptnlieteren7:Polsvu'eslll; i : fiarl' . ,: t i, period, was less than usual. The price of Patna, on th e ' d f ebruaryt was 1000 dollars per chest, of Mahva 800, and of .Turkey MO. The supply of Indian Opium for the Chit,* willmarket o P ot this season' is estimated at 10,01)0 chest*, which qua ntltY 't be more . than su ff icient for the demand. With this pro s therefore it is expected that price" w ilt rise 10 Se 20 Per fi thi, above the present quotations. Pa 1iANG.....-Tb# canuusoder of a Chinese vessel which k _, Place WA A trading voyage A kw mouths ago returned frou Pa DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock ' Old Annuities. New Ditto Ex. Bills, .£l,OOO IS pm. Ditto 5OO 18 pm. Ditto Small .. 2d. 18 20 pm. Ditto Commerci al Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for Account 79 N, NDS AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Neapolitan 1824 Peruvian Bonds — Portuguese Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent. 94% Ditto, New Russian, New, 5 p. c. Spanish, 1821 9% --- 1823 — French Rentes, 5 p. c —f. —c. Exchange —I. —e. -- 3 per cent. Exchange —t. —c. NOE YESTERDAY. Per Share. 8 efi 11/6 Leghorn • 47 Genoa 43 Venice 49 Malta Naples 39 Palermo per oz. 114 Lisbon 4l) Oporto 49% Rio Janeiro 43 Bahia 43% Buenos Ayres 43 Dublin, 21 days' sight ll 1 Cork BULLION, PER OZ. X. d. Portugal Gold, in coin 00 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 4 17 6 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 9 Silver, in bars, standard 0 4 11 TOCKS, SEPT. 6. St. Patrick Incur. (per share) pßoyal Irish Ditto I•National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank I'l 17 Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings LS. Arrived. Due. O . Guernsey & Jersey 0 • Hamburgh O4 O Holland 0 O Jamaica 0 O Leeward Islands O Llslxm 0 O Malta I Waterford 0 PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK._ Paid. Potosi La Pas and Peruvian Assoc. United Mexican Mining Company 22% Alliance Fire and Life Insurance Company 10 Protector Fire Insurance Company 2 COURSE OF EXCH Amsterdam C.F. 12 7 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 8 Antwerp l2 8 Hamburgh 2 U. 37 6I Altona 2g U. 37 7 I Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto 2U. 26 0 Bordeaux 26 0 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Mc. M. 155 Petersburgh, rble . 3 Us. 8% Vienna, effective fi 2 M. 10 24 Trieste do. Madrid 34 Cadiz 34% Bilboa Barcelona 34 Seville 34 Gibraltar 45 PRICE OF IRISH Bank Stock Gov. Stock, 3% per cent. 84% Ditto, New 4 per Cent. Goy. Deb. 3% per cent Bl Consols, 3 pef cent 7B Royal Canal Stock Grind Canal Stork City Deb. 4 per cent. Ballad Office Deb. 4 per cent. MA Arrived. Due. 11 America. 0 O Brazil 0 O Buenos Ayres O Donaghadee 0 1 Dublin O Flanders 0 1 France O Gottenburgh HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 3l minutes after 9. 1 Evening ....... 9 minutes after 9. be Al'snn.